We need at least this PRs merged in the release branch (will update this post if something is missing) in order to have the suite working for the validation on the boards:
Also, if it is possible, it’d be great if it’d be possible to rework the vendorizing process so that it’s an overlay off the base tarball. That is, snapd-2.24.tar.gz could be overlaid with a snapd-2.24.govendor.tar.gz which includes the snapd-2.24/vendor/ folder tree and any other vendorized-specific files.
This would allow me to pull in both tarballs easily while making it completely optional to use it. For distributions like CentOS 7, where I’d need to use the vendorized tree because packaging Go libraries is infeasible, it would be extremely handy. It also makes it possible for me to be able to pull patches and apply them consistently, rather than having to edit them all the time (since the “hand-crafted” vendorized unified tarball differs from the tarball generated by GitHub that includes things like Git data, which I use because otherwise patches backported or made independently will not work).
What sort of problem is the current release tarball creating? It already includes the vendor/ directory, which means you don’t need to hand craft it and can already use that tree in CentOS. For cases you really don’t want the vendor/ tree – which may create issues due to version drift – you can just delete it.
For one, patches don’t cleanly apply to the regular release tarball, due to missing Git files. This may hopefully become less of a problem in the future, but for now, it’s an issue.
@Conan_Kudo@mvo The change doesn’t work across different distributions. Libtool/autotools really suck. I am trying to find a different way right now.
i386 local run gave errors (http://paste.ubuntu.com/24362377/) probably because of network connectivity issues during the execution, retriggered (will updated this post later with the results)